The Cultivated Person's First Duty Is To

I Would Define The Poetic Effect As The Capacity That A Text Displays For Continuing To Generate Different Readings, Without Ever Being Completely Consumed.

A Novel Is A Machine For Generating Interpretations.

I Consider Always The Adult Life To Be The Continuous Retrieval Of Childhood.

History Is A Blood-drenched Enigma And The World An Error.

Stopgaps Do Belong To The Internal Economy Of The Form, Since The Whole Requires Them, Even If Only In A Subordinate Position ... The Stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' Accepts Its Own Banality, Because Without The Speed That The Banal Allows Up, It Would Slow Up A Passage That Is Crucial For The Outcome Of The Work And Its Interpretation.